| The Cosmic Eye | |
| Director: | Faith Hubley |
| Producer: | Faith Hubley |
| Starring: | Dizzy Gillespie Maureen Stapleton Jack Warden |
| Music: | Benny Carter Elizabeth Swados Dizzy Gillespie Conrad Cummings William Russo |
| Studio: | Hubley Studio |
| Distributor: | Upfront |
| Runtime: | 72 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Cosmic Eye is a 1986 American animated science fiction film directed by Faith Hubley and featuring the voices of Dizzy Gillespie, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Warden.[1]
A trio of homeward-bound space musicians, suffering from acute nostalgia on their space boat The Cosmic Eye, decided to take a turn over the Milky Way and sympathetically helping Earth while watching several films about contacting life in the cosmos and yearning for peace.[2] [3]
The film was released on VHS from Walt Disney Home Video in November 1985, but 7 months before the theatrically in New York City on June 6, 1986. It released on VHS again in 1990 from Buena Vista Home Video, and 1993 by Lightyear Video.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, calling it “an unusually pretty film but, like its title, it's also a bit intimidating.”[4]
Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing that it “is as joyous and heartening a movie as you’ll find all year. This eye winks, flutters, stares unabashedly and sees to the heart.”[5]